Voters in Argentina will head to the polls this weekend in a presidential runoff election, with the economy taking centre stage.
Data released by the country's statistics agency showed that Argentina's annual inflation rate hit 143 per cent this week leading up to Sunday's vote.
The country's economy minister in the ruling centre-left government, Sergio Massa, will face the eccentric, far-right candidate Javier Milei, who wants to see the country's central bank abolished.
Milei, who has been described as an Argentinian mashup of Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro and Boris Johnson, took 30 per cent of the vote in October's general election, triggering a run-off that is looking like it's going to be tight.
South American correspondent Joel Richards spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.
